·Governor’s budget
released 3/2013, Senate budget delayed; we expect a significant cut. We
anticipate funds for enrollment growth and building expansion. SDI priorities;
final budget expected after GA action, likely late June.

·House Bill 937 –
Amend Various Firearms Laws – allows people with concealed carry permits to keep
guns in locked cars. Has been passed by the Houseand is at the Senate – efforts are underway to grant campuses
authority to decide for themselves about guns on campus.

oChancellor to
appoint small faculty/staff group to participate in re-assessment of UNCW’s
overall approach to diversity and inclusion. Nominations by August. Wants a
small group to work quickly and over the summer.

oTimeline: State
grants request to use funds from teaching lab project for S&B, fall 2012;
Analysis of renovation options began – we have insufficient funds for the
renovation that the building really requires.

oOption One was a
phased renovation; vacant animal lab has less efficient single pass air.
Insufficient funds for this option due to needed supplemental HVAC. In fall
decided to do the renovation all at once – Small planning committee created in
January – included people with a broader perspective and who were not personally
effected (D. Cordle, S. McFarland, A. Vaughn, E. Pappamihiel, A. Steele, S.
Pickard, M. Morgan). Recommendation by April 1 to get information to
construction/engineering people for a January to August 2014 renovation.

oNo other major
renovation or construction projects expected in the next 5-10 years.

oCampus space
analysis shows we have 157% general purpose classroom space and over 200% of
required meeting space. Lack of faculty office space might be the primary
barrier to hiring new faculty. Gap in research/teaching lab space.

oPerformance goals
include increasing our number of graduates in STEM fields, health, honors and
energy efficiency.

oWe get 4.2 million
dollars from the Teaching Lab building; if we achieve greater energy efficiency,
we can get more funds for the S&B renovation.

b.It is intended to
create a convenience for people who have concealed weapons. He has carried
concealed for 20 years; it is not convenient.

c.Active shooter
training video available and also have presentations that we can make to
faculty.

·Items for Summer

oAd-Hoc RTP will
continue working on revisions.

oLugo will work on:

a.Updates to Faculty
Handbook

b.Refinement of
Senate SharePoint site

c.Helping with
deployment of IDEA

d.Becoming more
civilized.

4.Committee Reports

a.The University
Curriculum Committee offers the following motions:[Motion 2013-05-M01]

·College of Health
and Human Services Reorganization: The dissolution of the two departmental
structures within the School of Nursing and adoption of the School Director
organizational model as currently in place in the School of Health and Applied
Human Sciences and the School of Social Work (CAF)

·School of Nursing
designates CLR 460 as the oral competency course within the major (CAF)

oSenator: Concern
about faculty governance the director positions are all appointed, in contrast
with chairs. CHHS will no longer have Chair positions.

oMotion passes
with voice vote

[Motion 2013-05-M02]The creation of two
Marketing options in the Department of Marketing: Marketing Strategy and
Professional Selling (CAF)

oFaculty Statement
03: Liberal Studies
Troubles with re-location is small compared to others. Believes that her
relocation is a permanent downsizing from several offices to one faculty
office. Not sure MALS can operate under the new conditions – successful
program, graduated 11 masters; part of the campus goal to increase graduate
enrollments. Not concerned with the agenda of the business of the university,
only concerned with the academic mission….the ability to work under these
circumstances.

a.Issue of shared
staff resources she won’t address.

b.Students also
don’t have any impact.

c.Wants a university
that is responsive to our academic work.

oFaculty Statement
04: Physics
scheduled to move into this building. Notes that Provost presentation said:
increasing office space, increasing research space, in this move physics is
losing 40% of office space; 50% of research lab space and no opportunities for
synergy because the groups that traditionally work together will not be
together. In particular cannot share lab space for faculty. This is eviscerating
STEM faculty.

oFaculty Statement
05: Sociology & Criminology
Has seen a lot of shenanigans in her years here and this is the worst case of
disrespect for faculty in her 36 years here. The process by which this building
has been repurposed was secret and the people impacted were not consulted until
it came out in SWOOP. Faculty should have been able to discuss a STEM Center –
this has been a real missed opportunity. Now the spinoff is going to hit all of
campus. These are spin offs that are larger than those departments directly
impacted. Appreciates the report from the Provost but has to most respectfully
say too little too late. Respectfully suggests to reconsider repurposing the
facility.

oFaculty Statement
06: Sociology & Criminology
Comment on faculty treatment by the administration and the unhappiness of the
junior faculty. Process did not comply with the UNC systems of joint governance
– quotes from the code that the faculty were not adequately consulted as
required by the CODE.

oFaculty Statement
07: Anthropology

Younger faculty – continued
funding for the Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation while faculty lines
have to be fought for at the end of the academic year. Department informed to
move out of the building without faculty input. Had been told for the last three
months department would be returning. Loves Wilmington but is troubled by the
lack of support for Higher Ed in this state and the consequent constant state of
crisis.

oFaculty Statement
07: Math.
Told about cubicles in SON building but classes in Bear and GTAs in Bear. Math
doesn’t know how much space they would be losing if they moved to the new
building. Computer labs – technology labs? Will be able to teach our classes. We
have asked the questions several times but ….

a.Senator: There
are only two classrooms left in the building the Math department will not be
able to teach its classes in the building.

b.Faculty member:
wants to know what will become of “our expressions of concern.”

oFaculty Statement
08: Math and Physics
The last years have been difficult, many of these decision personally bother
him; doesn’t see how he can live in a cubicle – no books, files, this reduces to
effectiveness. The way things have been happening on this campus administrators
listen and then they do what they want over the summer anyway.

oDean David Cordle
When we talk about the plan, the plan that exists right now is basic – units
moving, creating additional science research and teaching lab spaces lab spaces
and what has to happen now is to work out exactly how the departments or any
others occupy space in the building. There is time to work that out in a way
that hopefully will be a net gain for many people. The temporary situation is
going to be tough and there is no way to make that easy in terms of emptying out
S&B. Really more a question of figuring out who is going to be inconvenienced.
Last point – committee members struggled with the work they were doing and the
information they were providing and not providing….but the other side of that
question is that to involve a situation one of the obvious direct stakeholders
as a part of the committee would have put that individual into a very directly
difficult situation. Doesn’t know about how the information would have been
shared when it was only just ideas under discussion ….

a.Senate Chair:
Notes that he has lots of voices passing through him. It is the faculty that has
been displaced. The people who came onto campus from off campus are not in
cubicles. The faculty are going to cubicles.

b.Would have been
easier to get the buy in of the faculty if this committee could have told people
that they were going to develop a STEM Center. The faculty could have commented
and helped shape this.

oComment –
Eliminating my program’s resources will cause it to be less effective and less
productive. She would understand this decision if the decision was being made
that the MALS program is no longer a program the University can continue to
support. If so, make the decision and let me know.

oComment: The idea
is that things happen on campus and no one knows anything but we are also
constantly being told things one way or another. So it would be better to be
more transparent so that the faculty know what is going on all at the same time.